Dash-cam video shows Sacramento police trying to run over a mentally ill man before fatally shooting him

Dash-cam footage shot from a Sacramento police cruiser appears to
show two officers attempting to run over a man who was reportedly
mentally ill and homeless, before they fatally shot him.

"F--k this guy," one of the officers can be heard saying, before
the car is seen turning toward the man, who has been identified
as 50-year-old Joseph Mann. "I'm going to hit him."

"Okay, go for it. Go for it," his partner can be heard
responding.

The footage and audio, published on Friday by the Sacramento
Bee, show Mann twice dodging the moving police cruiser,
before officers stop the car, run after Mann, and fire 18 shots,
14 of which struck him.

The officers had been responding to calls of a man seen
acting erratically and holding a knife and gun — police later
reported recovering a knife with a four-inch blade, but no gun
from the scene.

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Separate dash-cam footage from another police cruiser that
responded to the scene shows Mann telling officers he had no gun,
and ignoring officers' commands to "get on the ground" and drop
the knife.

Mann was "displaying obvious signs of mental distress" during the
moments that led up to the fatal encounter in July, according to
documents obtained by the
Washington Post from a federal lawsuit filed by his family.

Police also said a toxicology report found methamphetamine in
Mann's system.

"Inexplicably, the Officers failed to contact any properly
trained mental health counselors or make any attempt to use less
than lethal force and ignored the established police protocols to
make attempts to de-escalate the situation," the lawsuit said.

The officers involved, Randy Lozoya and John Tennis, have been
placed on "modified duty," a police spokesman told the Sacramento
Bee.

"They are officers that shouldn't be in uniform," Mann's brother
Robert told the newspaper. "If this is their state of mind when
they go to work, this doesn't serve anyone well."